The Budget on 28th Oct should have set out plans to rejoin the EU, said Sir Ed Davey, Leader of the Lib Dems. Rejoining the Single Market etc is needed to provide the growth our country needs to end the cost-of-living crisis and fix our public services.
The Leaders of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat & Independent groups at Folkestone and Hythe District Council have written to District Council Leader Jim Martin about the “Zionism is Racism” motion passed at the Green Party Conference.
Huge changes have been introduced to Planning Committees in England from 31 October.
Susan Murray, Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Dunbartonshire and Scottish Affairs spokesperson, has called on the UK Government to test fireworks more often, after it confirmed it has carried out no national noise testing of fireworks in the last three years.
Defections from the Greens and Conservatives
Scottish Liberal Democrats have urged the SNP government to respect the will of parliament and make a ministerial statement setting out its plans for introducing a learning disabilities, autism and neurodivergence bill after MSPs voted for the legislation